Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

To improve is to change.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.