Socialism would bring him back from contract to status

What about my Soul? That's all right. The essence of such service is unselfishness. My first thought has to be of others, of the relationship of Crown and people: there will be no room to think of money or of my own career.

A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right.

I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

There is no doubt that to our people, whether they live on the sea-coast, in the great towns, or inland, the Royal Navy is in some subtle way the repository of the spirit and the tradition of our nation.

no gospel founded on hate will ever seize the hearts of our people