Winston Churchill
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

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

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best'. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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

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

History is written by the victors.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Kites rise highest against the wind — not with it.

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

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

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.