Famous quotes by Statesmans

"What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another"

Henry John Temple, Statesman

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... Only then will you learn the game"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I was only the servant of my country, and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours, which sticks up out of the Atlantic"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar!"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English!"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"When you are winning a war, almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We are asking the nations of Europe, between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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