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

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

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

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.