The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
America always does the right thing, after exhausting all possible alternatives.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Lady X to Winston Churchill: Winston, you are drunk.
Winston Churchill to Lady X: Yes, and you are ugly. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.