Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.