I'd form a alliance with the devil himself if helped defeat Hitler. Winston Churchill More Quotes by Winston Churchill More Quotes From Winston Churchill I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths. Winston Churchill epilepsy games play There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate. Winston Churchill initials kind two The true guide of life is to do what is right. Winston Churchill guides life-is You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives. Winston Churchill humor funny america The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish. Winston Churchill deathless soul Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses. Winston Churchill names home travel The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. Winston Churchill ignorant stupidity bears Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty. Winston Churchill honesty honor art Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. Winston Churchill diplomacy giving art There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back. Winston Churchill winning country america It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing. Winston Churchill wrong-things There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher. Winston Churchill flocks sheep way It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless. Winston Churchill fearless hate years The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians. Winston Churchill expectations giving fall There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere. Winston Churchill future two past Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die. Winston Churchill horse taken son Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired. Winston Churchill significant tired people When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking. Winston Churchill office talking thinking I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions. Winston Churchill horse army animal Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. Winston Churchill free-speech freedom-of-speech foolish
