"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

"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?"

"When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals."

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

"During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened."

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."

"The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy."

"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."

"When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life."

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."

"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

"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."

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

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