"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."

"Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

"The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected."

"Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film."

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain."