Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State