I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success.
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.