This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father’s robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
I play for high stakes and given an audience – there is no act too daring or too noble.
I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman – they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
Don’t be content to be the chip off the old block – be the old block itself.
Two nations divided by a common language.
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it’s the best system we have.
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
In war, truth is often the first casualty.
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.