One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.