The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.