"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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 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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."

"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time."

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."

"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."

"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."

"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."

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."

"Great and good are seldom the same man."

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

"The first quality that is needed is audacity."

"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."

"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."

""No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."