Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sir Winston Churchill

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.
Sir Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sir Winston Churchill

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.
Sir Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

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.
Sir Winston Churchill

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Sir Winston Churchill

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
Sir Winston Churchill

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Sir Winston Churchill

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.
Sir Winston Churchill

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
Sir Winston Churchill

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E. B. White

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Jeff Melvoin

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Cicero

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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden,

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christine Bovee

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau