It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

History is written by the victors.

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.