It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.