Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

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

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.