There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.