There's A Large Strain Of Irony In

Old Politicians, Like Old Actors, Revive In The Limelight. The Vacancy Which Afflicts Them In Private Momentarily Lifts When, Oncemore, They Feel The Eyes Of An Audience Upon Them. Their Old Passion For Holding The Centre Of The Stage Guides Their Uncertain Footsteps To Where The Footlights Shine, And Summons Up A Wintry Smile When The Curtain Rises.

I Think Winston Churchill Is An Appallingly Bad Politician, And Always Has Been, That He Hung Onto Power Long After He Should Have Done, And That His Post-war Administration Was A Disaster.

I Think That President [dwight] Eisenhower Was... Did The Most Marvelous Job In The War, Not Really A Military Job: A Public Relations Job, And It Was Essential That There Should Be A Public Relations Job Done In The Post That He Had.

Secrecy Is As Essential To Intelligence As Vestments And Incense To A Mass Or Darkness To A Spiritualist Séance And Must At All Times Be Maintained, Quite Irrespective Of Whether Or Not It Serves Any Purpose.

It's The Circumstances Of Popular Monarchy, The Manner In Which It's Developed, And It Is Also The Fault Of The People Who Present Her With This Unquestioning Adulation. In Other Words, It's Their Lack Of A Larger Faith. Which Makes Them Fasten Onto, A Purely Earthly Symbol.