In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... 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.'

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.