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.

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

I think 'No Comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

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, 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.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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.

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.