Winston Churchill

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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.