Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

I have always believed and I still believe that it is the Red Army that has torn the guts out of the filthy Nazis.

It is for us the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced.