An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

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

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

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.