Winston Churchill

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

The first duty of a statesman is to tell the truth and the second is to tell the people what they ought to do.

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

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

We are masters of our own destiny. We are captains of our own souls.

Never, never, never give up.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.

Without a measure of humbug, society would be intolerable.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

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.

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.

The British people are like a lion. You have to twist its tail to make it roar.

Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.