Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.