Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Every wall is a door.

It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

They say that history repeats itself, so if you don’t learn from the past you will make the same mistakes. So I have become an archaeologist of my own history. Digging up what has long since been buried, exhuming those forgotten fragments. Trying to distinguish what is real from folklore, trying to gain understanding, rather than relying on myths.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.