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

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

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