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

I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?

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

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

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

Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

War would end if the dead could return.