Winston S. Churchill

“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

“Za pochodu si vytvárame svoj vlastný vesmír.”

“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”

“I love to learn but I do not want to be taught”

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.”

“This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.”

“I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”

“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.”

“Если вы можете начать свой день без кофеина,Если вы всегда можете быть жизнерадостным и не обращать внимания на боли и недомогания,Если вы можете удержаться от жалоб и не утомлять людей своими проблемами,Если вы можете есть одну и ту же пищу каждый день и быть благодарным за это,Если вы можете понять любимого человека, когда у него не хватает на вас. времени,Если вы можете пропустить мимо ушей обвинения со стороны любимого человека, когда все идет не так не по вашей вине,Если вы можете спокойно воспринимать критику,Если вы можете относиться к своему бедному другу так же, как и к богатому,Если вы можете обойтись без лжи и обмана,Если вы можете бороться со стрессом без лекарств,Если вы можете расслабиться без выпивки,Если вы можете заснуть без таблеток,Если вы можете искренне сказать, что у вас нет предубеждений против цвета кожи, религиозных убеждений, сексуальной ориентации или политики,Значит вы достигли уровня развития своей собаки”

“I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best”

“It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

“There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.”

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

“A kite flies against the wind, not with it.”

“Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

“Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.”

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”

“Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.”

“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.”

“In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.”

“The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”

“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”

“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose”

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”

“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

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

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“but at the Lychgate we may all pass our own conduct and our own judgments under a searching review. It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands in a different setting. There is a new proportion. There is another scale of values. History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”

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

“The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.”

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

“The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye. ”

“You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.”

“Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.”

“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself”

“Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”

“A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”