Winston Churchill

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ‘Verify your quotations.’

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

Merry Christmas! the man threatened.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Men are what their mothers made them.