If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see.

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.