We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge