The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.