Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."

[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.