If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.