Winston Churchill

Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money; Now We Have to Think.

Every morn brought forth a noble chance, and every chance brought forth a noble knight.

It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.

You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

History is written by the victors.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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

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

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

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