Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?

If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.