Expert knowledge, however indispensable, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon a human story with all its sadness - with all its unquenchable hope.
You must look at facts because they look at you.
The idea that nothing is true except what we comprehend is silly.
It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.
There's no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.
A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject.
The best method of acquiring flexibility is to have three or four plans for all the probable contingencies all worked out with the utmost detail.
A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.
Never surrender ourselves to servitude and shame whatever the cost may be.
If you destroy a free-market, you create a black market.
Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
I have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into the mysterious, let us tear aside the veils which hide it from our eyes and let us move onward with confidence and courage.
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1,000 Quotations and Anecdotes (1994) by James C. Humes.
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