Winston Churchill

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to these policies. As is most of the population.

The line of ‘Make America great again,’ the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody’s using it, they are all loving it. I don’t know, I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

It was in the townships where we shed so much blood. Nothing could have been achieved without the sacrifice of the people. Black people.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

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!

So the fear of drugs and the fear of crime is very much stimulated by state and business propaganda. The National Justice Commission repeatedly points out that crime in the United States, while sort of high, is not off the spectrum for industrialized societies.

I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media.

I don’t think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don’t think this should be Russia’s goal. I think even the United States doesn’t need to be a superpower. China doesn’t need to be a superpower. It’s a different world.

U.S. and Canada were completely isolated from the rest of the hemisphere on two issues. One was admission of Cuba into hemispheric systems. The second was the drug war, which Latin America are essentially the victims of the drug war.