Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
being good, peace & war
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
History is written by the victors.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
A joke is a very serious thing.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.