Winston Churchill

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, Sir, I am your most humble servant. You are not his most humble servant. You may say, These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times. You don’t mind the times … You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don’t think foolishly.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.