Winston Churchill

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Life too near paralyses art.

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.