- “When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
- “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
- “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
- “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
- “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
- “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
- “You ask, What is our policy? I will say; ‘It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.’ You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—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.”
- “We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
- "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
- “I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
- “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
- “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
- "You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
- "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others."
- “The Americans will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”
- “If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
- “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.”
- “Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
- “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”
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