"You have sat here too long for any good you are doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
— Leo Amery

January 1, 1970

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Concluding his speech in the "Norway debate" (7-8 May 1940), in the House of Commons. In saying these words, he was echoing what Oliver Cromwell had said as he dissolved the Long Parliament in 1653. As quoted in Neville Chamberlain: A Biography by Robert Self (2006), p. 423