Winston Churchill

No lover ever studied the whims of his mistress as I did those of Franklin Roosevelt.

Parliamentary institutions, with their free speech and respect for the rights of minorities and the inspiration of a broad tolerance in thought and expression, all this, we conceive to be a precious part of our way of life and outlook.

You can’t become the greatest nation in the world, and say, we’re not going to be interested in what happens elsewhere.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

It is always better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

the only thing worse than fighting with your allies is fighting without them.

From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military…

From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there's nothing for which they have less respect for than weakness, especially military…

The worst form of government devised by wit of man, except for all the rest.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.