" Walter Lippmann wrote: ‘The people are tired, tired of noise, tired of inconvenience, tired of greatness and longing for a place where the world is quiet and where all trouble seems dead leaves, and spent waves riot in doubtful dreams of dreams.’ Churchill himself thought England had entered a ‘period of exhaustion which has been described as Peace.’310 "

― William Manchester , The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932