When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.