I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

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.