Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

"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.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.