Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

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

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.