You do your worst, and we'll do our best.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose