I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right.

To the Palestine Royal Commission (12 March 1937) on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. Quoted in Gilbert, Martin: "Winston S. Churchill, Volume 5, Companion Part 3, Documents: "The Coming of War, 1936-1939". Heinemann, London, 1982. Pg 616.