The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
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.”
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never…. In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
The maxim “Nothing avails but perfection” may be spelled “Paralysis.”
Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.
If you have an important point to make don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack!
It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
It is no use saying “we are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.
Never give in never give in never never never never – in nothing great or small large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.
There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
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.”
No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
We must have a better word than “prefabricated” why not “ready-made”?
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.
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.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
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.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
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.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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.
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.