Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.