Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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

All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.