Lord Halifax

“Once you start on a slippery slope, there is no going back.”

“Human personality is the most precious thing in the world.”

“The first great quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second.”

“We have no enmity for the German people... We are not fighting against the German people but against a tyrannous and forsworn regime which has betrayed the whole of Western civilization and all that you and we hold dear.”

“Our perspective of the past is continually changing.”

“We are all of us, in these days, conscious of a great solidarity of purpose.”

“Whatever the outcome of the present struggle, it is certain that the world will not be the same world as that which we have known.”

“It is a great mistake to think that the countries of the world are now moved by ideals.”