Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

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

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

My reputation grows with every failure.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

Our own life has to be our message.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.