Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

All the great things are simple.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.