A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Quotations
Winston S. Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
