Winston Churchill

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

There are those that are void of all mercy, but when it comes the time that they are on their knees, they plead for it. Those that were born with the art of deception, never sincere with their words or actions. But mercy is not theirs to take, only for you to give. Never compromise your standards, your beliefs and become like the ones who you are fighting against, but stay resolute to who you are.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

No one ever became great by imitation.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.