The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

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

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

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

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.

England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.