Winston Churchill
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.Collection: Architecture
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.Collection: Patriotism
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.Collection: Time
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.Collection: Education
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.Collection: Brainy
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.Collection: War
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.Collection: War
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.Collection: Pet
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.Collection: Men
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.Collection: Success
If you're going through hell, keep going.Collection: Motivational
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.Collection: Business
It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Business
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.Collection: Saint
No crime is so great as daring to excel.Collection: Great
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.Collection: Government
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.Collection: Truth
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.Collection: Great
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.Collection: Marriage
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.Collection: Communication
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.Collection: Future
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.Collection: Future
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.Collection: Politics
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.Collection: Death
When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.Collection: Fear
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.Collection: History
The price of greatness is responsibility.Collection: Great
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Collection: Future
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.Collection: Courage
Never, never, never give up.Collection: Motivational
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.Collection: War
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.Collection: War
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.Collection: War
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.Collection: Truth
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Collection: Hope
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.Collection: Men
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.Collection: Power
Great and good are seldom the same man.Collection: Good
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Fear
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.Collection: Truth
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.Collection: Christmas
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.Collection: Respect
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.Collection: Morning
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.Collection: History
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.Collection: Business
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.Collection: War
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.Collection: War
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.Collection: Attitude