I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

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!

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.