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.

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.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

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.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.