Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.