History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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.
Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.