Winston Churchill Quotes

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation ...

I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

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

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

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

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

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

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

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

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.

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

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

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

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.

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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

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.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

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.

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

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

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

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

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

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

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.

Keep buggering on....

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

A sheep in sheep's clothing. [on Clement Attlee]

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

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.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

The outisde of a horse is good for the inside of a man.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

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.

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second ... if there is one.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

The truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.