My Headmaster Chastised Me With A Diabolical

The Long-established And Noble Rule Of Law, One Of The Greatest Products Of The Character And Tradition Of British History, Has Suffered A Deadly Blow. Blackmail Has Become Respectable.

Men Of Genius Are Not To Be Analysed By Commonplace Rules. The Rest Of Us Who Have Been Or Are Leaders, More Commonplace In Our Quality, Will Do Well To Remember Two Things. One Is Never To Forget Posterity When Devising A Policy. The Other Is Never To Think Of Posterity When Making A Speech.

It Is A Simple But Sometimes Forgotten Truth That The Greatest Enemy To Present Joy And High Hopes Is The Cultivation Of Retrospective Bitterness.

The Kind Of People I Myself Represent In Parliament; Salary Earners, Shopkeepers, Skilled Artisans, Professional Men And Women, Farmers And So On, These Are, In A Political And Economic Sense, The Middle Class. They Are For The Most Part Unorganised And Unselfconscious.

Thinking Ahead, What Really Happens To Us Will Depend On How Many People We Have Who Are Of The Great And Sober And Dynamic Middle-class - The Strivers, The Planners, The Ambitious Ones.