What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.