I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. |
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. |
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you. |
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. |
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests. |
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. |
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality. |
I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le |
I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit to me. |
I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial. |
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 a |
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing. |
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom. |
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. |
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it. |