#lit

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

— Winston Churchill

#destroy #law #regulations #respect #ten

The price of greatness is responsibility. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#price #responsibility

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life

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

#afterwards #explain #foretell #going #happen

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#courage #esteemed #first #guarantees #human

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

— Winston Churchill

#many #ny times #once #only #politics

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

#anything #confine #entirely #going #i

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

— Winston Churchill

#grow #solitary #strong #trees

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#about #am #best #both #closest

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#control #despotic #does #elite #form