Winston Churchill – Page 2

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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