Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well….

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from ….

The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, th….

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects ….

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought"..

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that ….

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech..

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising..

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility..

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions..

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion..

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York..

We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing i….

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die..

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women..

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strive….

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example..

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . ..

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success..

Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for exist….

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north..