Winston Churchill

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

We need much less than we think we need.

The people are to be taken in small doses.

It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Events tend to recur in cycles…

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.