Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.