Winston Churchill Quotes

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

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

Old men make war, young men fight and die

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.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

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

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Expert knowledge is limited knowledge

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

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

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

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

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.