The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.