Winston S. Churchill

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

“People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”

“When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.”

“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”

“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”

“Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.”

“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.”

“In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.”

“If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”

“...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.”

“I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed”

“Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]”

“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.”

“The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.”

“In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.”

“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.”

“It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”