British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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.
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.