It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

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

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

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

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

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

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.