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I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.
You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.
Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.
I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.