If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Study history, study history. In history list all the secrets of statecraft.

Politics is not a game. It's an earnest business.

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

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. 

The price of greatness is responsibility. 

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. 

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. 

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. 

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. 

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. 

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. 

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. 

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. 

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. 

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. 

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. 

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. 

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.