Winston Churchill

"The most important thing, is that we keep on learning."

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"Danger—the only animal that attacks for sport."

"To jaw-jaw is to make progress."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"I like a man who grins when he fights."

"A visitor comes with ten faces and leaves with thirty."

"You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give."

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it on something solid."

"Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to speak, but if I speak, that must be shut up."

"It is our duty to leave our country better than we found it."

"Ambition is what drives the human spirit forward."

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

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow; next week; next month; and next year."

"There is hidden or latent in every man a great power."

"The price of one great deed is all of a man's life."

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed."

"I have been hated by a great many people. But by the grace of God, I have also been loved."

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak."

"Birth is not the beginning; death is not the end."

"The greatest advances in human knowledge have always been the most unpopular."

"I am bored with it all."

"There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for doing that well."

"Anything that is easy to do is not worth doing."

"History is written by the victors."

"One cannot always keep the lamp burning; one must put it out sometimes."

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

"The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself."