“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”

“It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.”

“You will find the Americans much as 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.”

“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”

“Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.”

“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”