A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.

Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.