It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.