It is a fine game to play the game of politics and it is well worth a good hand before really plunging.

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

Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow next week next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

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.

In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.