Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

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

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.