Winston Churchill

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.