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.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.