Winston Churchill

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.