Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

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

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.