"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."

"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."

"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."

"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

"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 always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

"Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you."

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."

"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

"The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all."

"Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

"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 never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."

"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."

"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."

"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."

"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."