We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.