More Quotes by Winston Churchill
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
He who fails to plan is planning to fail.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
