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.

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.

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.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

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

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

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.