I never worry about action, but only inaction.

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.