Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

In all our long history we have never seen a greater day than this.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.