Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.