"Any idiot can see something wrong. But..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.”

“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

“Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”

“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.”

“The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.”

“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”

“I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.”

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”