Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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

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