Success is never final.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.