Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

These are great days.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.