No one should waste a day.
Praise the humanities, my boy. That’ll make them think you’re broadminded!
I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men’s souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.
The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.
The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.