Winston Churchill

Success always demands a greater effort.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.