Winston Churchill

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

In the Soviet Union, it’s takes more courage to retreat than advance.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

GATT and NAFTA ought to be called “investor rights agreements,” not “free trade agreements.” One of their main purposes is to extend the ability of corporations to carry out market-distorting operations internally.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

If someone was watching this from Mars, they’d collapse in ridicule. The United States is telling Iran to stop its aggressive militarism? I mean we occupy two countries on their border…

…if you want to be praised and have your books reviewed and told how brilliant you are and get great jobs, it’s not advisable to be a dissident. It’s not impossible, and in fact the system has enough looseness in it so that it can be done, but it is not easy.

Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940’s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

My use of social media is not presidential – it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!

[on Les Paul guitars] It’s the construction and sound of it. With this material, the wood and neck construction and scale length really yields a different sound all together, and I just gravitate towards that. I pretty much get everything I want with it, so I’m very satisfied.