Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.