I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

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 succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

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

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