Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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.