 We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. |
| 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. |
| History is written by the victors. |
| In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. |
| I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. |
| Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. |
| The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. |
| You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. |
| Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. |
| When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. |
| If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. |
| The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. |
| An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. |
| Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. |
| Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. |
| We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. |
| Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. |
| We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. |
| I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. |
| These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. |
