British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.