Winston Churchill

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

Oftentimes, it’s the way we react to change that is the thing that determines the overall experience.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

How many are the things I can do without!

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.