Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

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.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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 is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

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

Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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

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