It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
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.
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.
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."
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.