Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

When you are going through hell, don't stop.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.