Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

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

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.