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

The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.

We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.

It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.

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

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

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.