From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

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

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

All the great things are simple.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.