Winston S. Churchill

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

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

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."

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

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning."

"Never, never, never give in!"

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

"This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read."

"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

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

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

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

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."

"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."