We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.