We Shape Our Buildings; Thereafter They Shape

If The British Empire Is Fated To Pass From Life Into History, We Must Hope It Will Not Be By The Slow Process Of Dispersion And Decay, But In Some Supreme Exertion For Freedom, For Right And For Truth.

It Is Always More Easy To Discover And Proclaim General Principles Than It Is To Apply Them.

We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed. And Should European Statesmen Address Us In The Words Which Were Used Of Old — “shall I Speak For Thee To The King Or The Captain Of The Host?” — We Should Reply With The Shunamite Woman: “nay, Sir, For We Dwell Among Our Own People.”

Everyone Has A Right To Pronounce Foreign Names As He Chooses.

I Am Weary Of A Task Which Is Done And I Hope I Shall Not Shrink When The Aftermath Ends. My Only Wish Is To Live Peacefully Out The Remaining Years - If Years They Be.