Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief -a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one’s own homestead.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.