In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

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.

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

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

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

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.