Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

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.

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

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.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Stop worrying about what tomorrow brings, God is already preparing some amazing things way ahead of you.

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

And all may do what has by man been done.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.