The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth. . . she is the only flower on earth. . . that grows unwatered.
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.