You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.