All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.

The dignity of a Prime Minister, like a lady's virtue, is not susceptible of partial diminution.

Honours should go where death and danger go.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

There is nothing they [Russian leaders] admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.