Winston Churchill

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.