Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

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

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.