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.

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.