Winston Churchill

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matters, I should not use any phrase or expression which would cause offence to our friends and Allies on the Continent or across the Atlantic Ocean.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

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

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

I teach that all men are mad.

For we put the power in the people.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.