If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

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.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

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.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.