It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will...

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The freedom of poetic license.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.