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 did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.