Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.