Winston Churchill: “It is always better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.”

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…

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

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

You had the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor yet you will have war.