"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

"There is no such thing as a good tax."

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."

"History is written by the victors."

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

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

"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

"A politician needs 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."

"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire."

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."

"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic."

"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."