Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Communication • Stereotypes

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Education • History • Politics

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

Authority • Government • Laws

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Health • Nation

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Reflection

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Art • Innovation • Tradition

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Ignorance • Malice • Truth

History is written by the victors.

History • Influence • Power

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Leadership • Peace • War

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Love • Marriage

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Economics • Equality • Philosophy

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Nation • Patriotism • Politics

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Democracy • Government • History

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Achievements • Motivational • Perseverance

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Generosity • Motivational • Philanthropy

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Simplicity • Virtue

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Bravery • Patriotism • Perseverance

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Nature • Perseverance • Strength

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

Deception • Politics • Truth

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Adversity • Courage • Motivational