The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.