No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.