In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.
