We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

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.'

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

I'm so bored with it all.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.