If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.