Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

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

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.