I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.