Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!