Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

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

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

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.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.