What a fool I have been!
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.
This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don’t feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.
Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.