The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already... but to do those things which at present are not done at… - John Maynard Keynes

The commonest virtues of the individual are often lacking in the spokesmen of nations; a statesman representing not himself but his country may prove, without incurring excessive blame — ­as history often records — ­vindictive, perfidious, and egotistic.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

Please don't imagine that I have weakened on the wisdom of frontier revision. Indeed the latest concessions are such as to make one feel even more than before that in the long run frontier revision is a cleaner and safer remedy. I was simply trying to be emphatic about what you say yourself – that it is plain as pikestaff that at this juncture one must back up the Czechs, and particularly not suggest to Hitler that he can get what to him seems more.