Winston Churchill
(page 6)

When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

I think 'No Comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

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

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

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

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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