Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon
We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Never, never, never give up.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Quotes from Winston Churchill
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