This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.