My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

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.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.