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...

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious...

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

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, “Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend...

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their...

In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnaminityIn Peace: Good Will.

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

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the...

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new...

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is...