Winston Churchill

“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”

“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

“I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

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

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

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

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

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

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

“It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”

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

“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”