History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. – Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. – Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. – Winston Churchill
History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays