Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The money men make lives after them.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.