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Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
[Politics is] the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
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.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice, because so long as a case has to be scrutinized by twelve honest men, defendant and plaintiff alike have a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
