Winston Churchill

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

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.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

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

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.