It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

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.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.