"My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop"
"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them"
"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me"
"No crime is so great as daring to excel"
""No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again"
"Never, never, never give up"
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm"
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day"
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival"
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information"
"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"
"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality"
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter"
"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham"
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed"
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all"
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen"
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others"
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"
"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself"
"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank"
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others"
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put"
"Eating words has never given me indigestion"
"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old"
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won"
"The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all"
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning"
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult"
"The price of greatness is responsibility"
"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself"
"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it"
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"
"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read"
"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft"
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon"
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong"
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all"
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better"
"Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen"
