No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.
Terminological inexactitude
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
A joke is a very serious thing.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
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."
Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the...
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.