To Improve Is To Change; To Be

Building Slow Destroyers ! One Might As Well Breed Slow Race Horses.

It Excites World Wonder In The Parliamentary Countries That We Should Build A Chamber, Starting Afresh, Which Can Only Seat Two-thirds Of Its Members. It Is Difficult To Explain This To Those Who Do Not Know Our Ways. They Cannot Easily Be Made To Understand Why We Consider That The Intensity, Passion, Intimacy, Informality And Spontaneity Of Our Debates Constitute The Personality Of The House Of Commons And Endow It At Once With Its Focus And Its Strength.

We Hoped To Land A Wild Cat That Would Tear Out The Bowels Of The Boche. Instead We Have Stranded A Vast Whale With Its Tail Flopping About In The Water.

We Shall Not Fail Or Falter; We Shall Not Weaken Or Tire. Neither The Sudden Shock Of Battle, Nor The Long-drawn Trials Of Vigilance And Exertion Will Wear Us Down. Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job.

If You're Not A Liberal At Twenty You Have No Heart, If You're Not A Conservative At Forty, You Have No Brain.