Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

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

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words – 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

A vow is a snare for sin.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.