Winston Churchill

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

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

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

“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.”

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”