Winston Churchill
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To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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

A joke is a very serious thing.

Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.