"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."

"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors."

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

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"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."

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."

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

"Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward."

"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

"In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society."

"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."

"When I look back on all these worries, 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 had never happened."

"They said it was only a ground shark, but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other."

"So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm."

"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."

"An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it."

"The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings."

"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."

"Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart."

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

"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 contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

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

"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."

"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

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

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

"Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning."

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

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

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

"Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!"

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."

"Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves."

"If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."

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

"Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes."

"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."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."