We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

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.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.