The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.