Winston Churchill

"Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" "And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.