If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.