Winston Churchill
(page 4)

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.