I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.