Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

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

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver -- you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children -- that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale.

We are muddled into war.

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

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror -- and they last longer.

An aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

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

Neville Chamberlain has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.