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

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

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

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Success always demands a greater effort.