What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
Ernest BevinForeign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
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