Winston Churchill

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

“History is written by the victors.”

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

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“Great and good are seldom the same man.”

“When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

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