If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

[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.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.