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

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.