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.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.