Sir Winston Churchill

Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

-- Sir Winston Churchill, Spoken at his first Cabinet meeting May 13, 1940 and again later that day to the House of Commons

The Balkans produce more history than they can consume.

-- Sir Winston Churchill, Attributed to, probably inaccurately

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

-- Sir Winston Churchill, November 10, 1942, The Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened

Personally I‘m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught