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.

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

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

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

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

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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

Never, never, never give up.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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

History is written by the victors.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

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.

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

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

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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.

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

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

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

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