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

When Hitler began, Germany lay prostrate at the feet of the Allies. He may yet see the day when what is left of Europe will be prostrate at the feet of Germany.

Hitler’s success, and, indeed, his survival as a political force, would not have been possible but for the lethargy and folly of the French and British Governments since the War.

Our moral and military support of the United States and our possession of nuclear weapons of the highest quality and on an appreciable scale, together with their means of delivery, will greatly reinforce the deterrent power of the free world, and will strengthen our influence in the free world.

I am an English Liberal. I hate the Tory party, their men, their words and their methods. I feel no sort of sympathy with them – except to my own people at Oldham.

I am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the recreation of the European family must be the partnership between France and Germany.

No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy… So we had won after all!

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India … Our fight is hard. It will also be long … But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

In politics when you are in doubt what to do, do nothing … when you are in doubt what to say, say what you really think.