Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.