Winston Churchill
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
An unjust punishment is never forgotten.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn…
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
True friends stab you in the front.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of…
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the…
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and…
The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
No human thing is of serious importance.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing.…
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Sex is emotion in motion.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to…
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.