Criticism in the body politic is like pain in the human body. It is not pleasant, but where would the body be without it?

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science-the science against which it had vainly struggled-the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

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.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.