Winston Churchill

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

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The people are to be taken in small doses.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct – nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I’m sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.