In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others. – Winston Churchill
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. – Winston Churchill
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders