Winston Churchill Quotes

Writing is an adventure. ~ Winston Churchill

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives. ~ Winston Churchill

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate. ~ Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibilty. ~ Winston Churchill James

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation ... ~ Winston Churchill

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion. ~ Winston Churchill

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals. ~ Winston Churchill

They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all. ~ Winston Churchill

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

When I look round to see how we can win the war I see that there is only one sure path ... and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland. We must be able to overwhelm them by this means, without which I do not see a way through. ~ Winston Churchill

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

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring. ~ Winston Churchill

No one can say how far Herr Hitler's empire will extend before this war is over, but I have no doubt it will pass away perhaps more swiftly than Napoleon's empire and without its glory. The British spirit and temperment, bred in freedom, will prove more enduring and resilient than the most efficient mechanical discipline.
Winston Churchill ~ Michael Tappenden

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

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

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future. ~ Winston Churchill

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. ~ Winston Churchill

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form. ~ Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters. ~ Winston Churchill

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. ~ Winston Churchill

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form. ~ Winston Churchill

How often in life must one be content with what one can get! ~ Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. ~ Winston Churchill

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
(Winston Churchill) ~ Winston S. Churchill

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

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks. ~ Winston Churchill

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. ~ Winston Churchill

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta. ~ Winston Churchill

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity. ~ Winston Churchill

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. ~ Winston Churchill

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot. ~ Charles Seife

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners." ~ Anne Sebba

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things! ~ Winston Churchill

The era of procrastination ... is coming to a close ... we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement ~ Al Gore

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it." ~ Winston Churchill

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

Without ships, we cannot live. ~ Winston Churchill

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field. ~ Winston Churchill

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. ~ 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. ~ Winston Churchill

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. ~ Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy. ~ Barack Obama

The arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung. ~ Winston Churchill

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. ~ Winston Churchill

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. ~ Winston Churchill

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

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success. ~ Winston Churchill

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits ~ Winston Churchill

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. ~ Winston Churchill

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs. ~ Winston Churchill

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics. ~ Winston Churchill

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

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid. ~ Winston Churchill

The further back I look, the further forward I can see. ~ Winston Churchill

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship. ~ Winston Churchill

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension. ~ Winston Churchill

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. ~ Winston Churchill

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not. ~ Tim O'Reilly

All babies look like me.
But then, I look like all babies. ~ Winston Churchill

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. ~ Winston Churchill

We get to make a living; we give to make a life. ~ Winston Churchill

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life. ~ Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. ~ Winston Churchill

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die. ~ Winston Churchill

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. ~ Winston Churchill

If you destroy a free market you create a black market. ~ Winston Churchill

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time. ~ Neil Cavuto

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher. ~ Winston Churchill

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. ~ Winston Churchill

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind. ~ Winston Churchill

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. ~ Winston Churchill

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

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. ~ Winston Churchill

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 ~ Winston Churchill

Success," as Winston Churchill once said, "is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. ~ Amanda Ripley

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. ~ Winston Churchill

My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad. ~ Christopher Titus

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. ~ Winston Churchill

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies. ~ Winston Churchill

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power. ~ Winston Churchill

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere. ~ Winston Churchill

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

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. ~ Winston Churchill

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old. ~ Winston Churchill

We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and...wherever they go in this wide domain...will truly feel, 'Here I am at home. ~ Winston Churchill

If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain. ~ Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? ~ Winston Churchill

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. ~ Winston Churchill

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential. ~ Winston Churchill

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for." ~ Winston Churchill

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous. ~ 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. ~ Winston Churchill

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler. ~ Winston Churchill

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal. ~ Winston Churchill

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. ~ Winston Churchill

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. ~ Luke Ford