Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.