"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged
and indefinite period of material prosperity,
they have only got to behave in a peaceful
and helpful way toward one another."
-Winston Churchill

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
-Winston Churchill

"Courage is
the first of human qualities
because it is the quality
which guarantees all others."
-Winston Churchill

"True genius resides
in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous,
and conflicting information."
-Winston Churchill

"Out of intense complexities
intense simplicities emerge."
-Winston Churchill

"Sure I am of this,
that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves."
-Winston Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man
to read books of quotations. . . .
The quotations,
when engraved upon the memory,
give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious
to read the authors and look for more."
-Winston Churchill

"The empires of the futures
are the empires of the mind."
-Winston Churchill

"The pessimist sees
difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty."
-Winston Churchill

"Never, never, never, never give up."
-Winston Churchill

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

"If we open a quarrel between
the past and the present,
we shall find we have lost the future."
-Winston Churchill

"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."
-Winston Churchill

"Writing is an adventure.
To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement.
Then it becomes a mistress,
then it becomes a master,
then it becomes a tyrant.
The last phase is that just as you are
about to be reconciled to your servitude,
you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
-Winston Churchill

"There is no finer investment for any
community than putting milk into babies."
-Winston Churchill