Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

All the great things are simple.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.