"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."

"The vanquished themselves prove that history has not lied; like tourists in hell, they took snapshots."

"It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb."

"Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time."

"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."

"It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there."

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."