Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.