Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

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

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

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Always seeking acceptance from others, searching for belonging. Striving for individuality, yet wanting to fit in. Never understanding that acceptance for one’s own individuality make all of that redundant.

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that’s become my enemy because that’s what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.