"When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter."

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

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

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

"Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man."

"I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened."

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, 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."

"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."

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

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

"Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force."

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

"This is the lesson: 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 honor and good sense. Never yield to force;never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

"I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful."

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

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

"A man must choose his own way of life, and it is only by following out one's own bent that there can be the really harmonious life."

"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."

"Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found."

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."

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

"I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations."

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

"All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind."

"Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down."

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

"The English never draw a line without blurring it."

"I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

"We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest."

"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."

"It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we must do what is required."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed."

"In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will."

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

"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."

"Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character."

"It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."

"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."

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

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