There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Sometimes you've to be clever than a coyote to out wit the devil.

Talking is easy action difficult.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Courage is how bad you want it.

Talent is often a defect in character.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.