Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

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.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Blows are sarcasm’s turned stupid.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.