Winston Churchill

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

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

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

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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