I think perhaps it would be useful if I repeat again to you the words which I used in the first speech when I became leader of our party [in 1911]..."No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction..." That was my view then:... it is my view today, and if I thought the Unionist party was, or would ever become, a party of that kind, I would not be a member of it.
At the Public Baths, Old Kent Road (7 November, 1922).