Winston Churchill

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

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

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

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matters, I should not use any phrase or expression which would cause offence to our friends and Allies on the Continent or across the Atlantic Ocean.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Tear thyself from delay.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Necessity does everything well.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money’s sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.