Winston Churchill Quotes

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

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

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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!

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

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?

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see.

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

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

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

Even fools are right sometimes.

The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

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

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

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

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

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.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

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

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.