If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.