[It was] not at all like an experience in the modern world. More like meeting George III at Brighton.

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt