Winston S. Churchill

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

It__ not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them _ peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, 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.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.