Winston Churchill

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.”

“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

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

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

“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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.”

“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”

“A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.”

“The first quality that is needed is audacity.”

“My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.”

“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”

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

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

“I like a man who grins when he fights.”