Winston Churchill

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ‘Verify your quotations.’

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

We must substitute courage for caution.

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

What we become depends on what our fathers teach us.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.