The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.