Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Never, never, never give up.

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.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.