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.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.