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

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

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.

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.

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

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

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