It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.