An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.

Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Men see what they are most afraid of.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.