England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

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

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

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.