We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.