Winston Churchill

"The human imagination has always outrun the human condition."

"A society that does not value its distinguished men is no better than a zoo."

"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege."

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

"The price of excellence is discipline."

"A man should be jailed any moment he is convicted by a jury of his countrymen of having stolen a penny."

"I believe it is peace for our time."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Wars are not won by evacuations."

"In my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a nutritious diet."

"The price of defending any old institution is to reform it."

"When the war of the giants is over the war of the pygmies will begin."

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."

"I have always believed that in politics anything can happen once."

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

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!"

"The greatest quality of leadership is to raise the bar by your own example."

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

"This is our finest hour."

"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and effect to the firm ground of first principles."

"The empires of tomorrow will be the empires of the mind."

"It is no use saying, we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"To jaw-jaw is to war-war."

"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

"We are all worms, but I believe that I am a glowworm."

"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."

"The price of greatness is responsibility; one cannot rise to true greatness while remaining selfish."

"Most people fail in life, not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."