When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

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.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.