Winston Churchill

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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.

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

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

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.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

You don’t create things, you discover things.

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.