No crime is so great as daring to excel.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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.
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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
History is written by the victors.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
A joke is a very serious thing.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.