'Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.'
'Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.'
'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.'
'It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.'
'Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot'
'A poor memory is not the same as a clear conscience'
'Civil servants - no longer servants, no longer civil.'
'Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offence.'
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'
'A nation that forgets its past has no future.'
'Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.' 'Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.'
'It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.'
'It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.'
