The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.