There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

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.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

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.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.