it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.