All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.