Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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

This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.

I am prepared to meet my maker; whether my maker is prepared to meet me is entirely another matter.

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war. To Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons, after the Munich accords (1938).

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. Speech in the House of Commons

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I hate nobody except Hitler — and that is professional.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Speech after the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941).

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought. On Ramsay MacDonald.

Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.