Winston Churchill

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

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

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.