If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.