Victory Was To Be Bought So Dear

It Excites World Wonder In The Parliamentary Countries That We Should Build A Chamber, Starting Afresh, Which Can Only Seat Two-thirds Of Its Members. It Is Difficult To Explain This To Those Who Do Not Know Our Ways. They Cannot Easily Be Made To Understand Why We Consider That The Intensity, Passion, Intimacy, Informality And Spontaneity Of Our Debates Constitute The Personality Of The House Of Commons And Endow It At Once With Its Focus And Its Strength.

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

Before America Entered The War [ww2] I Knew We Could Not Win It, But After She Entered I Knew We Could Not Lose

I Wonder Whether Any Other Generation Has Seen Such Astounding Revolutions Of Data And Values As Those Through Which We Have Lived. Scarcely Anything Material Or Established Which I Was Brought Up To Believe Was Permanent And Vital, Has Lasted. Everything I Was Sure Or Taught To Be Sure Was Impossible, Has Happened.

How I Hated This School, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There For More Than Two Years.