I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

There is no working middle course in wartime.