If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.
The true guide of life is to do what is right.
One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.