By noon it was clear that the Socialists would have a majority. At luncheon my wife said to me, 'It may well be a blessing in disguise.' I replied, 'At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.'

[Mr. Attlee, then Prime Minister] the other day accused me of being party minded. Everyone would naturally be shocked if a party leader were party minded! But we are all party minded in the baffling and unhappy period between election decisions.

These are the qualifications of a good Party man-you must know how to put your Party before yourself, and you must know the occasions when to put nation before Party.

No party can command respect which sustains this year, what it opposed last.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

These political fiends are not half sick enough yet. `Party malice' and not `public good' possesses them entirely.