Famous Sir Winston Churchill Quotations

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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
by Sir 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."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
by Sir 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."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
by Sir 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."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
by Sir 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."
by Sir 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."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
by Sir 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."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
".... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - 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."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'"
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, 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."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will"
by Sir Winston Churchill
"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Kites rise highest against the wind---not with it."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"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 other forms that have been tried from time to time."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
by Sir Winston Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
by Sir Winston Churchill


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