We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

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

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.