I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.