Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

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.

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

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.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

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

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