Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits