It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.