You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.