Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

I want our young people to know that they matter, that they belong. So don’t be afraid. You hear me, young people? Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. Empower yourself with a good education. Then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise. Lead by example with hope; never fear.

I’m a history buff, and I know that big changes take time. But I also know that, setting politics aside, usually things are never as good as you think they are or as bad as you think they are. And that has served me well temperamentally.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought – by force of circumstances, not argument – to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels use the border unimpeded like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the U.S.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Well, if I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican – and that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me. When I walk down the street, those cabbies start yelling out their windows.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

I think our Russian Football Union must play an active part in this… and develop a new generation of sportsmen and soccer players.