Winston Churchill
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A joke is a very serious thing.

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.

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

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

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.