However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to...

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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...

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

A waitress goes up to Winston Churchill and says, ‘Sir, your drunk.’To which he replies, ‘I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

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

Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] … by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue...

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for...

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

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

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk’, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects...

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the...

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is...

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I may be drunk Miss but, in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed...

A politician needs 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.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

…But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to...

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it...

We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police … yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and...

Quelli che sono in grado di vincere una guerra possono raramente realizzare una pace conveniente, e quelli che possono realizzare una buona pace non hanno mai vinto una guerra.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

I’ve gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.