In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.