Winston Churchill

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are.

An empire is an immense egotism.

The time has come to shed this skin. Its cloying inconvenience doesn’t fit me anymore. My new attire strikes color, shine, shadow, makes noise, and may put your teeth on edge. Tough sh–. Get used to it. I’m inviting you to step into your fear and dance with life.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.