There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.
Even fools are right sometimes.
The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.
Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.
Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
Without victory there is no survival!
Leadership is the intelligent use of power.
Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.
We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.
To improve is to change.
This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.
We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known – and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.
Most of the world’s work is done by people who don’t feel very well.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century.
Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.
My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.