I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.