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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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