Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

When you know better you do better.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

All generalizations are false, including this one.