If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.