A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.