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