We have, I suspect, a long way to go yet. We may have to face many very difficult and awkward situations. It may well be that the real test still lie… - Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

I well know that there are many people who press for swifter and more radical solutions of the problems before us.

No one can possess what we call good judgement, which is about the same thing as an instinct for recognizing Reasonable Probabilities, whose mind is not trained to follow truth. And in many of the most important things of life. Reasonable Probabilities are our only guides.

The removal from among us of a public man of exceptional capacity and marked personality still in the prime of life, is at any time a tragedy. The sense of loss on personal and public grounds, and the inevitable diminution of the effective influence which at all times so essentially depends on the winning personality of the individual, are keen and real.