We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

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

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".