Winston Churchill Quotes

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It ...

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be ...

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be ...

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours...

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees ...

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the other...

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in...

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do tha...

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the...

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly re...

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

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the bes...

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent v...

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall...

Never, never, never give up.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire an...

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: th...

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided...

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not ...

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another...

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit d...

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and grow...

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire a...

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight ...

Terminological inexactitude

Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.

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

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace woul...

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cra...

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or pet...

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and conti...

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor...

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...

We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that ha...

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.

Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have ...

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his...

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty...

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching res...

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow th...

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed...

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is a...

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at...

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, b...

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.