When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.