"After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

"For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future."

"At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender."

"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

"If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future."

"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."