Winston Churchill

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

Language is the dress of thought.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.