I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.