Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

History is written by the victors.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.