Winston Churchill

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

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

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.