If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Votes: 13
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. Votes: 10
History is written by the victors. Votes: 5
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Votes: 0
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. Votes: 0
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. Votes: 0
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Votes: 0
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Votes: 0
Never, never, never give up. Votes: 0
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one. Votes: 0
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. Votes: 0
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Votes: 0
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. Votes: 0
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. Votes: 0
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Votes: 0
Keep calm and carry on. Votes: 0
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. Votes: 0
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. Votes: 0
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war. Votes: 0
Wars are not won by evacuations. Votes: 0
Success is never final. Votes: 0
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Votes: 0
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. Votes: 0
All the great things are simple. Votes: 0
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested. Votes: 0
There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. Votes: 0
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. Votes: 0
A joke is a very serious thing. Votes: 0
I'm so bored with it all. Votes: 0
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. Votes: 0
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world. Votes: 0
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman. Votes: 0
No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong. Votes: 0
Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm. Votes: 0
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Votes: 0
Nature will not be admired by proxy. Votes: 0
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality. Votes: 0
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen Votes: 0
Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path. Votes: 0
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. Votes: 0
It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them. Votes: 0
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan. Votes: 0
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century Votes: 0
Writing a book is an adventure. Votes: 0
Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow. Votes: 0
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Votes: 0
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. Votes: 0
...to win by one is enough. Votes: 0
[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. Votes: 0
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. Votes: 0
A sheep in sheep's clothing. Votes: 0
A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed. Votes: 0
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms. Votes: 0
All wisdom is not new wisdom. Votes: 0
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him. Votes: 0
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters. Votes: 0
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat. Votes: 0
Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home Votes: 0
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist. Votes: 0
England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war. Votes: 0
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience. Votes: 0
Even fools are right sometimes. Votes: 0
Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions. Votes: 0
First casualty of war, is the truth. Votes: 0
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise. Votes: 0
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. Votes: 0
I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away. Votes: 0
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. Votes: 0
I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future. Votes: 0
I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head... Votes: 0
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it. Votes: 0
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force. Votes: 0
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. Votes: 0
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough. Votes: 0
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism. Votes: 0
I'd rather be right than consistent. Votes: 0
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea. Votes: 0
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement. Votes: 0
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. Votes: 0
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. Votes: 0
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another. Votes: 0
Never let a good crisis go to waste Votes: 0
Never run away from anything. Never! Votes: 0
Never, ever ever ever ever give up. Votes: 0
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. Votes: 0
No one should waste a day. Votes: 0
Nothing is won without enthusiasm. Votes: 0
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field. Votes: 0
Perfectionism spells paralysis. Votes: 0
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius. Votes: 0
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. Votes: 0
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm. Votes: 0
Sunshine is my quest. Votes: 0
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. Votes: 0
The Aryan stock is bound to triumph. Votes: 0
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities. Votes: 0
The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too. Votes: 0
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'. Votes: 0
The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. Votes: 0
The reservist is twice the citizen. Votes: 0
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. Votes: 0
There are bitter weeds in England. Votes: 0
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. Votes: 0
There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them Votes: 0
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away. Votes: 0
There's no such thing as a good tax. Votes: 0
These are great days. Votes: 0
To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go. Votes: 0
To improve is to change. Votes: 0
Unpunctuality is a vile habit. Votes: 0
What a fool I have been! Votes: 0
What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Votes: 0
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. Votes: 0
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. Votes: 0
Without ships, we cannot live. Votes: 0
Writing is an adventure. Votes: 0