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

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.

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

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

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.

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 open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.