It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

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.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.