British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.