If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.
The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.
It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.
An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.
Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.
My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.
If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said – namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
Air power may either end war or end civilization.
Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.