Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested |
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have |
History is written by the victors. |
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it |
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. |
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws. |
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. |
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. |
I am bored with it all. |
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. |
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. |
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. |
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. |
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you. |
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. |