We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."