I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.