I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

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

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.