A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow$$$ next week$$$ next month$$$ and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

If you have an important point to make$$$ don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile$$$ hoping it will eat him last.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth$$$ but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking$$$ and women will not be nice to you if you are.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe$$$ merely because those are the marching orders.

For the powerful$$$ crimes are those that others commit.

He said all that needs to happen for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.

The world is to be carried forward by truth$$$ which at first offends$$$ which wins its way by degrees$$$ which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.