"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"

"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."

"Never, never, never give up."

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

"Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting."

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

"The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS."

"Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine."

"I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed."

"We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France 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 halls. We shall never surrender."

"Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields."

"We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic."

"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."

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

"We must have a better word than "prefabricated" why not "ready-made"?"

"Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something."

"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."

"Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen."

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

"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."

"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."

"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."

"Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!"

"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 like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"Never give in. 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. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

"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."

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

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

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."

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

"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

"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."

"Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome."

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

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."

"Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times."

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

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