The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.