Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.