The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen’s speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.
Without ships, we cannot live.
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.
In Hitler’s launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the outstanding blunders in history.
The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis – still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.
The maxim of the British people is; Business as Usual!
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
There but for the grace of God, goes God.