If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.