Winston Churchill

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Well, dinner would have been splendid!

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.