Much might be said for and against the two-Party system. But no one can doubt that it adds to the stability and cohesion of the State. The alternation of Parties in power, like the rotation of crops, has beneficial results. Each of the two Parties has services to render in the development of the national life; and the succession of new and different points of view is a real benefit to the country.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

The Soviets are, in short, waging total cold war. The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery - a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.