"When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

"It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them."

"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."

"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."

"(When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be 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."

"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."

"Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."

"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."

"In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice."

"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."

"Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air 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."

"I like a man who grins when he fights."

"How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave."

"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

"Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path."

"I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go."

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

"You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks."

"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside."

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."

"If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)"

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour.""

"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."

"This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning."

"India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator."

"Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings."

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."

"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."

"There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."

"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."

"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."

"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."

"Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required."

"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."