[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

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.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.