I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt

A colonial governor who ran out of countries.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.