Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

When the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

If you are good, life is good.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.