We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.