Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

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

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.