We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.

In great deeds something abides.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

On great fields something stays.

Learn to think impartially.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.