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In honor of Winston Churchill's "Finest Hour' speech in June of 1940, a collection of Churchill quotes:
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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The Tyranny of Technological Expectations