Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.
I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.
Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems – or it may be the same problem – will be presented to every generation in different forms.
Life is a test and this world a place of trial.
Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.
Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.
Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.
Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth.
Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.
It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.
To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.
Never flinch, never weary, never despair.