There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.