Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.