A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.