Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?