Winston Churchill

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

The future though imminent is obscure.

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

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

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

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Never, never, never give up.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

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.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.