The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

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

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

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.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

Corruption never has been compulsory.