Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, on...
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, vi...
If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed
Una nación que intente prosperar subiendo impuestos es como un hombre con los pies en un cubo tratando de levantarse tirando del asa.
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in...
Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sle...
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he...
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will...
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
War will find us whether we are ready or not.
-Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè. -Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo berrei." Dialogo tra Lady Astor e Winston Churchill
