No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

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.

The German war is … at an end … [A]lmost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us … Advance, Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom! God save the King!

God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

We must be careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

For defeat there is only one answer … victory.

Always be on guard against tyranny, whatever shape it may assume.

Let no one swerve off the high road of truth and honour.