“A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

“Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.”

“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose”

“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.”

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”