it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.