I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.