Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.