Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

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

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.