When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

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.