It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.