You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you — a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their propaganda machinery. If words could kill, we shall be dead already.

Hess or no Hess, I’m going to watch the Marx Brothers.

'Safety first' is the road to ruin in war, even if you had the safety, which you have not.

Success always demands a greater effort.

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.

It must be remembered that the function of Parliament is not only to pass good laws, but to stop bad laws.