Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

The press lives on disaster.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.