If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.
The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.