Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen’s speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

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

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.