A waitress goes up to Winston Churchill and says, 'Sir, your drunk.' To which he replies, 'I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.
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.
Un prigioniero di guerra è un uomo che cerca di ucciderti, non ci riesce, dopo di che ti chiede di non ucciderlo.
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether ...
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 have to fight with all the odds against you and on...
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 despair, do not yield...march straightforward.
Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of...
Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.
