Winston Churchill Quotes

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

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

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

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

With opportunity comes responsibility.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

No one should waste a day.

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

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

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

The reservist is twice the citizen.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

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

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

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

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

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

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.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?