Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.