Winston Churchill

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it."

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

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."

"The reader of the daily newspaper is better informed than he was 100 years ago, but he understands it less."

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

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

"Great and little things depend on ourselves; our only care should be not to offend against our conscience."

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."

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

"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."

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

"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation."

"Some regard private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but a few see it as a sturdy horse pulling a wagon."

"Never trust a man who has not had a woman break his heart."

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best and the old words when short are best of all."

"The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense is infinite."

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen to him next week; and the ability to explain why it didn't happen."

"I am bored with it all."

"The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof."

"Men occasionally stumble over truth; most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

"What is the use of philosophy if it does not answer the questions posed to us by our fellow human beings?"