Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

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.