We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

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.

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

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.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

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.