It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.