 I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. |
| A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. |
| War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. |
| In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. |
| 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. |
| Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. |
| Eating words has never given me indigestion. |
| Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. |
| It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. |
| A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. |
| Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. |
| History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. |
| Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. |
| The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. |
| 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. |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. |
| There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. |
| Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. |
| If you are going through hell, keep going. |
| 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. |
