...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

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.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.