Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

advance America's foreign policy interests overseas - the backbone of our foreign affairs.

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Louella remarked that when foreign nations had intercourse with this country they knew they had been intercoursed.