Winston Churchill

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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

In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

We hate the kindness which we understand.