In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.