Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.