January 20, 2025

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.