The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Science should be on tap, not on top.