“Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.”
“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”
“Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.”
“We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.”
“At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.”
“Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”
“The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”
“If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.”
“As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.”
“It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.”