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.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.