The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.