If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.