We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.