“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.”

“And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.”

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.”

“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

“We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.”

“I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.”