The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

We ought to love, encourage and support each other.

Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you.

A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.

You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.

Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.