I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

In politics, guts is all.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.