I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

Keep calm and carry on.

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.