What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.

Like begets like honesty begets honesty trust trust and so on.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.