Winston Churchill Quotes

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

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

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

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

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Never give in, never give in, never give in.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.