All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened