At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."