It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.