Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.