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

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

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

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.