Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

The price of greatness is responsibility.