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

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.