Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.