Winston Churchill

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

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

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

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