A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.