No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.