A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

A medal glitters but it also casts a shadow

You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.