with her factories equipped to the very latest point of science by British and American money.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le

I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour