Winston Churchill

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another’s air with another’s breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a tenant at will of the great Lord of heaven and earth.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.