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

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

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

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

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

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.

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.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

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

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

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