There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.