I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

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

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.