Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.