Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Well, dinner would have been splendid!

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Whatever you have spend less.

In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Lilac anemone, paper petals, turning tentatively to face a pale sun opening to reveal a lightness of being, a flash of gold, a fresh resilience, contented silence, the dawn of a new day.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.