What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.