When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.