The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.