Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.