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

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.

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.

Thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.