The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
It is no use saying 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
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.
Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact if anything I am the prod.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.