Winston Churchill

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

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

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.