From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!