I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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 and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time....
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.
[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.