It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

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."

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.