Winston Churchill

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

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.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

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.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.