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.

Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

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

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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