A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'