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.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."

We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory Wars are not won by evacuations.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

It fell to me in these coming days and months to express their sentiments on suitable occasions. This I was able to do, because they were mine also. There was a white glow, overpowering, sublime, which ran through our island from end to end.