The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it.

There should be on great occasions a sense of crowd and urgency. There should be a sense of the importance of much that is said, and a sense that great matters…

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow.

In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in internation…

We could have stopped this, we could still do so... But for the most part, we in the west have actually given comfort to the aggressor.