We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.