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.

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.