Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.