Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness… We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that… Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been ‘under fire.’ That was something.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford – we have no right – to look back. We must look forward

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