A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.