Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.