I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

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."

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.