Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

A politician needs 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

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

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

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

“No comment” is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

 
Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill

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

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston Churchill

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill

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.
Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

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.
Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

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