The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.