Winston Churchill: “Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”

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.

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

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…

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