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.

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

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.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

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

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.