If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.