Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

All colors will agree in the dark.

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Do not assume anything. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.