There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Watch your character for your character is your destiny.
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you’re ugly. I can quit smoking.
Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
If you destroy a free market you create a black market.
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.
Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
Good night, then – sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.
Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.