"When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise"
"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect"
"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty"
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out"
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day"
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind"
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"
"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time"
"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization"
"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it"
"I am easily satisfied with the very best"
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have"
"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war"
"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times"
"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong"
"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside"
"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic"
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place"
"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it"
"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar"
"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive"
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time"
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future"
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter"
"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game"
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it"
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it"
"History is written by the victors"
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us"
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning"
"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened"
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English"
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure"
"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived"
"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure"
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see"
"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another"
"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you"
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on"
"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see"
"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire"
"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks"
"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"
"The first quality that is needed is audacity"
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result"
