A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.