Youth for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you in only a precarious chance of survival.
An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last.
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.
Books in all their variety are often the means by which civilization maybe carried triumphantly forward.
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death; those who are worried to death; and those who are bored to death.
On campaigning:
First of all grin or as they say "smile." There is nothing like it. Next, be natural and quite easy as if you were talking to people in a quiet place about something in which you were much interested.
Third, cultivate a sense of detachment from the clatter and clamor proceeding around you.
The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery.
Is it better to have equality at the price of poverty or well-being at the price of inequality?
Do not let us speak of Darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
The more man's choice is free, the more likely it is to be wise and fruitful not only to the chosen but to the community in which he dwells.
The flame of Christian ethics is still our best guide... only on this basis can we reconcile the rights of the individual with the demands of society.
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1,000 Quotations and Anecdotes (1994) by James C. Humes.
Hillary Clinton could have used the political advice.
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