...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.