Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

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

War would end if the dead could return.

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.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

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