Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

Things do not get better by being left alone.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

With opportunity comes responsibility.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.