If you're going through hell, keep going.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Never, never, never give up.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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

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

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

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

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

History is written by the victors.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.