Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.