Winston Churchill

“History is written by the victors.”

“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.”

“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

“Great and good are seldom the same man.”

“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.”

“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.”

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

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

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”

“Politics is 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.”

“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”

“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”