Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

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

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

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.