To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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.

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

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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

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

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.