In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

Success is never final.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.