Winston Churchill

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

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do, and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life, has its exceptions.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.