Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.