I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.