Wars are not won by evacuations.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

One ought to be just before one is generous