Syntagma tries always to bring you the best one-liners around. The master, in my view, was Winston Churchill. #

Here are a few choice quotes from him :

1. This is for Gordon Brown.
We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

2. For Brown and the European Union.
If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.

3. For George Bush.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.

4. For Tony Blair.
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.

5. For blog network owners.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

6. For George Bush’s successor.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

7. Consolation for Americans.
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.

8. For everyone.
Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”