One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.