Communicating Authentically

A man with so many laudable turns of phrase, he deserved his own page.

• I like a man who grins when he fights.
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
• The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.
• It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
• He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
• The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
• Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
• Never give in—never, never, never, never—in nothing great or small, large or petty; never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
• There are a lot of lies going around… and half of them are true.
• If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
• The price of greatness is responsibility.
• 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.
• I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
• There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
• This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
• When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
• Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
• Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
• From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.