It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.