We shall rather draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival, and of a victory won not only for ourselves but for all; a victory won not only for our own time, but for the long and better days that are to come.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “They know that they have behind them a people who will not flinch or weary of the struggle— hard and protracted though it will be; but that we shall rather draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival, and of a victory won not only for ourselves but for all; a victory won not only for our own time, but for the long and better days that are to come.” · Broadcast, London, 11 September 1940

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

Charles Dickens · Estella to Pip in the ruined garden of Satis House, eleven years on, in the novel's final chapter; the sentence before says "suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr · The source reads: “Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.” · The Irony of American History (1952)

O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley · The source reads: “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” · Ode to the West Wind (1819), l. 68

“We shall rather draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival, and of a victory won not only for ourselves but for all; a victory won not only for our own time, but for the long and better days that are to come.”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?”

“I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.”

“O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

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