Quotes

[refusing alcohol offered to him by Winston Churchill] Never touch the stuff. Don't drink, don't smoke--and I'm 100% fit!

[to Dwight D. Eisenhower who had just lit a cigarette] I don't permit smoking in my office.

The African is a complete savage and is quite incapable of developing the country himself.

We should have no nonsense with the United Nations Organisation about Tanganyika; it should be absorbed into the British bosom.

There is an increasing social and political consciousness developing in the African peoples; this is a very great potential danger and must be watched ... Already Communist agents are active in all parts of Africa and they are exploiting to the full the lack of any uniform native policy throughout the British territories. Every Colony, as well as the Union of South Africa, has different native laws. This situation is a menace.

I am delighted to hear that there is a clear policy ... for the development of Africa. I went all round that continent and failed to discover anything of that sort myself. Possibly I am very stupid!!!

I was told to prepare plans for the seizure of Cork and Queenstown in southern Ireland so the harbours could be used as naval bases.