Winston Churchill

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.