England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.