We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought.

A jibe directed at Ramsay MacDonald, during a speech in the House of Commons, March 23, 1933 "European Situation". This quote is similar to a remark ("He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met") made by Abraham Lincoln. [Frederick Trevor Hill credits Lincoln with this remark in Lincoln the Lawyer (1906), adding that 'History has considerately sheltered the identity of the victim'.]