There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.