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

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

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

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.