"No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it."

"As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."

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

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

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

"You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth."

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

"If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

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

"The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life."

"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."

"I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility."

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

"People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

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

"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."

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

"If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground."

"You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her."

"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."

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

"The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE."

"A nation that forgets its past has no future."

"The future though imminent is obscure."

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."

"Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly."

"Never, never, never give in!"

"Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down."

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

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

"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."

"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."

"Good and great are seldom in the same man."

"Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

"We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm."

"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."

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."