Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.