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.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!