“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all other forms that have been tried from time to time.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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