Winston Churchill Quotes

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

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

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

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

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

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

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

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

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Writing is an adventure.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.