Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.
Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum…
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weeaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come…
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it…
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
There are a lot of lies going around...and half of them are true.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way 'til you can.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.
He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.
I think 'no comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for…
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you.
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never…
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals.
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