Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

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

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

I’m sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

It didn’t take very many forces to destroy huge numbers of natives, not so much because the technology was better, but because the Europeans fought differently. If we were to be honest about the history, we would describe European colonialism simply as a barbarian invasion.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

We should be adult and grown up and decriminalise cannabis

It is because Russia is seen as a threat, because Russia is seen as becoming a competitor. I believe this approach is mistaken.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‘gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.’ Nope.

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

Nuclear weapons are not a defence.

According to polls released by the Brookings Institution in August [2011], some Arabs agree with Washington and western commentators that Iran is a threat: 10%. In contrast, they regard the US and Israel as the major threats (77%; 88%).

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.