I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.