Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’
Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s Champagne!
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Make sure that the beer – four pints a week – goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Wars are not won by evacuations.
If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
Most people hate the taste of beer – to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.