m-ric/english_historical_quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.	Winston Churchill	[ "best", "government" ]
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.	Winston Churchill	[ "business", "politics" ]
No crime is so great as daring to excel.	Winston Churchill	[ "great" ]
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.	Winston Churchill	[ "freedom", "great", "hope" ]
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.	Winston Churchill	[ "politics" ]
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.	Winston Churchill	[ "life" ]
Great and good are seldom the same man.	Winston Churchill	[ "good", "great" ]
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.	Winston Churchill	[ "truth" ]
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.	Winston Churchill	[ "truth" ]
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.	Winston Churchill	[ "future" ]
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.	Winston Churchill	[ "business" ]
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.	Winston Churchill	[ "good", "peace", "war" ]
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.	Winston Churchill	[ "education" ]
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.	Winston Churchill	[ "art" ]
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.	Winston Churchill	[ "best", "success" ]
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.	Winston Churchill	[ "history" ]
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.	Winston Churchill	[ "war" ]
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.	Winston Churchill	[ "time" ]
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.	Winston Churchill	[ "war" ]
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.	Winston Churchill	[ "truth" ]
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.	Winston Churchill	[ "good" ]
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.	Winston Churchill	[ "war" ]
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.	Winston Churchill	[ "respect" ]
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.	Winston Churchill	[ "great" ]
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.	Winston Churchill	[ "smile", "war" ]
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.	Winston Churchill	[ "change" ]
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.	Winston Churchill	[ "government" ]
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.	Winston Churchill	[ "time" ]
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.	Winston Churchill	[ "time" ]
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.	Winston Churchill	[ "time", "truth" ]
History is written by the victors.	Winston Churchill	[ "history" ]
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.	Winston Churchill	[ "politics", "war" ]
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.	Winston Churchill	[ "change" ]
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.	Winston Churchill	[ "power" ]
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.	Winston Churchill	[ "great" ]
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.	Winston Churchill	[ "time" ]
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.	Winston Churchill	[ "respect" ]
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.	Winston Churchill	[ "politics", "respect" ]
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.	Winston Churchill	[ "future" ]
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.	Winston Churchill	[ "attitude" ]
There is no such thing as a good tax.	Winston Churchill	[ "good" ]
A joke is a very serious thing.	Winston Churchill	[ "humor" ]
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.	Winston Churchill	[ "men", "truth" ]
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.	Winston Churchill	[ "politics" ]
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.	Winston Churchill	[ "history" ]
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.	Winston Churchill	[ "courage", "failure", "success" ]
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.	Winston Churchill	[ "war" ]
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.	Winston Churchill	[ "history" ]
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.	Winston Churchill	[ "diet", "life" ]
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.	Winston Churchill	[ "government", "home", "time" ]
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.	Winston Churchill	[ "great" ]
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.	Winston Churchill	[ "best" ]
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.	Winston Churchill	[ "morning" ]
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.	Winston Churchill	[ "architecture" ]
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.	Winston Churchill	[ "pet" ]
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.	Winston Churchill	[ "life" ]
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.	Winston Churchill	[ "power" ]
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.	Winston Churchill	[ "power" ]
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.	Winston Churchill	[ "war" ]
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.	Winston Churchill	[ "learning" ]
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.	Winston Churchill	[ "great" ]
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.	Winston Churchill	[ "failure", "success" ]
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.	Winston Churchill	[ "saintpatricksday" ]
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.	Winston Churchill	[ "good", "power" ]
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.	Winston Churchill	[ "war" ]
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.	Winston Churchill	[ "politics", "war" ]
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.	Winston Churchill	[ "government", "life" ]
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.	Winston Churchill	[ "nature" ]
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.	Winston Churchill	[ "best", "life", "war", "work" ]
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.	Winston Churchill	[ "politics", "war" ]
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.	Winston Churchill	[ "truth", "war" ]
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.	Winston Churchill	[ "intelligence", "strength" ]
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.	Winston Churchill	[ "funny", "marriage" ]
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.	Winston Churchill	[ "fear" ]
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.	Wole Soyinka	[ "morning" ]
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?	Wole Soyinka	[ "great", "home" ]
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.	Wole Soyinka	[ "music" ]
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.	Wole Soyinka	[ "government" ]
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.	Wole Soyinka	[ "best", "learning" ]
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.	Wole Soyinka	[ "future" ]
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.	Wole Soyinka	[ "amazing" ]
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.	Wole Soyinka	[ "art", "communication", "nature" ]
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.	Wole Soyinka	[ "freedom" ]
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.	Wole Soyinka	[ "power", "truth" ]
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.	Wole Soyinka	[ "nature" ]
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.	Wole Soyinka	[ "freedom", "history", "power", "society" ]
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.	Wole Soyinka	[ "truth" ]
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	[ "death", "god", "happiness", "learning" ]
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	[ "music" ]
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	[ "imagination", "intelligence", "love" ]
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	[ "best" ]
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	[ "faith", "great", "love" ]
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	[ "best" ]
Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.	Wolfman Jack	[ "music" ]
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.	Woodrow Wilson	[ "politics" ]
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.	Woodrow Wilson	[ "leadership" ]
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.	Woodrow Wilson	[ "sports" ]
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.	Woodrow Wilson	[ "politics" ]
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.	Woodrow Wilson	[ "government" ]
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.	Woodrow Wilson	[ "government" ]

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

Winston Churchill

[ "best", "government" ]

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

[ "business", "politics" ]

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Winston Churchill

[ "great" ]

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

[ "freedom", "great", "hope" ]

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

[ "politics" ]

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Winston Churchill

[ "life" ]

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

[ "good", "great" ]

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

[ "truth" ]

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

[ "truth" ]

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

[ "future" ]

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

[ "business" ]

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

[ "good", "peace", "war" ]

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

[ "education" ]

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

[ "art" ]

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

[ "best", "success" ]

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

[ "history" ]

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill

[ "war" ]

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

[ "time" ]

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

[ "war" ]

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

[ "truth" ]

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

[ "good" ]

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

[ "war" ]

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill

[ "respect" ]

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

[ "great" ]

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill

[ "smile", "war" ]

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

[ "change" ]

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

[ "government" ]

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

[ "time" ]

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

[ "time" ]

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

[ "time", "truth" ]

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

[ "history" ]

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

[ "politics", "war" ]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

[ "change" ]

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Winston Churchill

[ "power" ]

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill

[ "great" ]

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

[ "time" ]

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Winston Churchill

[ "respect" ]

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

[ "politics", "respect" ]

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

[ "future" ]

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

[ "attitude" ]

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Winston Churchill

[ "good" ]

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

[ "humor" ]

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

Winston Churchill

[ "men", "truth" ]

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

[ "politics" ]

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

[ "history" ]

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

[ "courage", "failure", "success" ]

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

[ "war" ]

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

[ "history" ]

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Winston Churchill

[ "diet", "life" ]

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

[ "government", "home", "time" ]

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

[ "great" ]

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Winston Churchill

[ "best" ]

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

[ "morning" ]

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

[ "architecture" ]

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

[ "pet" ]

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

[ "life" ]

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

[ "power" ]

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill

[ "power" ]

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

[ "war" ]

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

[ "learning" ]

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

[ "great" ]

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

[ "failure", "success" ]

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

[ "saintpatricksday" ]

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Winston Churchill

[ "good", "power" ]

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

[ "war" ]

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

[ "politics", "war" ]

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

[ "government", "life" ]

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

[ "nature" ]

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

[ "best", "life", "war", "work" ]

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

[ "politics", "war" ]

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

[ "truth", "war" ]

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

[ "intelligence", "strength" ]

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

[ "funny", "marriage" ]

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

[ "fear" ]

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Wole Soyinka

[ "morning" ]

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Wole Soyinka

[ "great", "home" ]

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Wole Soyinka

[ "music" ]

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Wole Soyinka

[ "government" ]

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Wole Soyinka

[ "best", "learning" ]

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

Wole Soyinka

[ "future" ]

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Wole Soyinka

[ "amazing" ]

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Wole Soyinka

[ "art", "communication", "nature" ]

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wole Soyinka

[ "freedom" ]

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

[ "power", "truth" ]

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Wole Soyinka

[ "nature" ]

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Wole Soyinka

[ "freedom", "history", "power", "society" ]

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Wole Soyinka

[ "truth" ]

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[ "death", "god", "happiness", "learning" ]

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[ "music" ]

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[ "imagination", "intelligence", "love" ]

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[ "best" ]

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[ "faith", "great", "love" ]

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[ "best" ]

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

Wolfman Jack

[ "music" ]

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Woodrow Wilson

[ "politics" ]

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

[ "leadership" ]

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Woodrow Wilson

[ "sports" ]

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

[ "politics" ]

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Woodrow Wilson

[ "government" ]

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

[ "government" ]