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.

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

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

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.