I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.