It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

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

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.