1. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
2. Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
3. 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.
4. Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
5. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
6. I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
7. The price of greatness is responsibility.
8. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
9. We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
10. The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst
11. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
12. Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, 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.
13. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
14. Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
15. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
16. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
17. We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
18. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
19. Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
20. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter
