The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.