Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.