I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.