The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

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

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

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

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

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.

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