Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

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

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

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