This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political…

It is always possible that that may happen here which has happened in Belgium—the elimination of Liberalism, leaving the two forces of Socialism and Reaction face to face. Whether that shall happen here depends on the Liberal Party.

There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of office from the hands of his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes when he hands them back.

[The British Empire is] the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.

I believe that Liberalism is the principle in politics that neither class, nor creed, nor privilege shall hinder the progress of our natural development.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record.

It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs.