Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

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