However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.