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.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.