Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

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.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Revolutions go not backward.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.