Winston Churchill

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of the childrens hour. I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England. Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.

Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can’t resolve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

We have more people than ever using foodbanks, we have a greater number of people being homeless and many people in housing stress.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.

I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge.

If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn’t exist in the world, you know. There’s not one such country anywhere in the world.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.