Winston Churchill

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

“Never, never, never give in.”

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

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

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