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

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

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

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.