Winston Churchill

“Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“When you are going through hell, keep going”

“The outisde of a horse is good for the inside of a man.”

“All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.”

“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.”

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

“Never, ever ever ever ever give up.”

“Keep Calm and Carry On”

“We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and...wherever they go in this wide domain...will truly feel, ‘Here I am at home.”

“You create your own universe as you go along.”

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”

“Se lei fosse mio marito, le metterei del veleno nel caffè""Se lei fosse mia moglie, quel caffè lo berrei”

“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”

“He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”

“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

“Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”

“Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”

“Solitary Trees if they grow at all, grow strong.”

“I have taken more from alcohol than alcohol has ever taken from me.”

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

“Never, never, never give up.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

“Success is going from failure to failure with great enthusiasm.”

“no hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle”

“Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.”

“I'm bored with it all. - Last Words”

“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ”

“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”

“there is no such thing as a good tax”

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

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

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”

“Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. ”

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.”

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

“The most important thing about education is appetite.”

“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”

“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.”

“If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: 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.”

“Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.”

“There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.”