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Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

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

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

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

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

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

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.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

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

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

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

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

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

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

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

We are muddled into war.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

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

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.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

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

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

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

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

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

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

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

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

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.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

It is either Christ or chaos.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

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