January 24, 2025

…see how sensitive the citizens become: they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority and at length

[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!

A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.