Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will...
Never, never, never give in!
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the...
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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 g...
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.
In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference i...
In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despai...
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.