Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.