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

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.