Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.