It is better to be making news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual".

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in poiltics many times.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls".

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee." Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it. Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet that in three weeks, England would have her neck wrung like a chicken - Some chicken! Some neck!

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!