Winston Churchill

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

An index is a great leveller.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?