Winston Churchill

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.