The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.
If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!
Keep calm and carry on.
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.
And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.
All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it.
The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
Don’t give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.
The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.
One ought to be just before one is generous.
It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.