The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
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.’
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.