Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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I like a man who grins when he fights.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
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