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

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

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

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.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

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".

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.