"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

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

When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.