Quotes
Quotes - Churchill
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.
Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.
The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.' ********** Winston Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6 invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (British Petroleum) in the last 100 years.
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at the self-same end, Satire is always virtue's friend.
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
