In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.