Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

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.

Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.