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

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

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

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.

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