Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

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

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

The soul’s emphasis is always right.

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life — some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed — because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one’s self-approval.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.