There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
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
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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.
I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.
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.
If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!
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