The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.