Winston Churchill
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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.

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

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.

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.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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.