Society and the World

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

What is our aim? … Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

What is our policy? … to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

[The Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

War settles nothing … to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one!

AM IN MARKET HARBOROUGH. WHERE OUGHT i TO BE?

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,

The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;

For the great Gaels of Ireland