Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.