I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

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

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.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

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