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For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
I never "worry" about action, but only about inaction.
The Second World War (1939)
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The Second World War (1939)
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The Second World War (1939)
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
The Second World War (1939)
Everyone can see the arguments against the English-speaking peoples becoming the policemen of the world.
Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
The Second World War (book series) (1948)
There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.
The World Crisis (1923)
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)
No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)