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

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

I'd rather be right than consistent.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.