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.

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

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.

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

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.