The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
We must have a better word than ''prefabricated'', why not ''ready - made''?
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Never give in! Never give in! Never, never...In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
It is no use saying ''we are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so - called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.
There are few virtues which the poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
The maxim ''Nothing avails but perfection'' may be spelled ''Paralysis.''
A joke is a very serious thing.
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.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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