René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorThe death penalty has only been perpetuated by a kind of legal crime.
René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorI do not believe that the art of quotation is within the reach of those small spirits who, finding nothing within themselves, must take everything from others.
René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorA good action is an insolent lesson for those who do not have the courage to execute it.
René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorThe dream devours existence: that's the good part.
René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorInstitutions go through three periods: that of service, that of privileges, and that of abuse.
René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorHeaven rarely makes it so that the man who wants and the man who can are born together.
René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorThe independence of thought is the noblest aristocracy.
René de Chateaubriand
View AuthorThe threat of the strongest always makes me stand by the weakest.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorDemocracy is the need to occasionally yield to the opinions of others.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorCourage is what is needed to stand up and speak; but it is also what is required to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorI have often had to eat my words and have found them to be a balanced diet.
Winston Churchill
View AuthorThe diplomat is a person who first thinks twice and finally says nothing.