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.

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

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.