This is related to my post, Tweeting wisdom of the ages, attempting to debunk the notion that something less than 140 characters must be shallow. These are quotations from Winston Churchill that would fit in tweets:
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
I should note that this quote, one of Churchill’s most famous, is too long for a tweet: 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.