He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Folly is a child of power.