Socialism would gather all power to
the supreme party and party leaders,
rising like stately pinnacles
above their vast bureaucracies of
civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.
I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.
One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."
... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.