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

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.

Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

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.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors.

Well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.

Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way