I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)
You never want to give a man a present when he’s feeling good. You want to do it when he’s down.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (American Head of State)
It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American Unitarian Minister)
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
—Harold Macmillan (British Head of State)
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
—Dorothy Parker (American Poet)
I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.
—Benjamin Harrison (American Political leader)