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

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.

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

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

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

We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.