I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.