“If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.”

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

There is a denial of the value of the individual.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

The press lives on disaster.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour’s wife over the garden fence.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.

Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I’m wrong.

Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

I can’t begin to describe the amount of crap I’ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.