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.

I’m bored with it all. – Last Words

History is written by the victors.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

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

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my...

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial… I thought I knew a good deal about...