Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

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

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.