Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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!

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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

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.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, It would be to use the phrase ‘f**k off’ much more frequently.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.