We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.