Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third...

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

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war...

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

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance....

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is...

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

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

Gli italiani perdono le partite di calcio come se fossero guerre e perdono le guerre come se fossero partite di calcio.

They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

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

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features...

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every...

As one’s fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.

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

Una nación que intente prosperar subiendo impuestos es como un hombre con los pies en un cubo tratando de levantarse tirando del asa.

Churchill: “Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?” Socialite: “My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course… “Churchill: “Would you sleep with me for five...

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a ‘gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.’ Being...

Za pochodu si vytvárame svoj vlastný vesmír.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

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...

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

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

Never, never, never give in!

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

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

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is–the...

Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

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.