Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I felt as if I was walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.