We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.
The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
The only guide to man is his conscience.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.
The only guide to a man’s conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.