“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”

“You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.”

“The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.”

“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.”

“War would end if the dead could return.”

“Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?”

“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”

“War would end if the dead could return.”

“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”

“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.”

“Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.'They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'.'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me.”