Winston Churchill

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Well, dinner would have been splendid!

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

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

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Dare to think for yourself.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.