He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.