If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.