Winston Churchill

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

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

“There is no such thing as a good tax.”

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

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

“History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.”

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

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

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”

“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”

“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”

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

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”

Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collecti...

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

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

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”