It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.