Winston Churchill
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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.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.

If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.