Winston Churchill Quotes

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

I'd rather be right than consistent.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

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.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

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

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

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

Without ships, we cannot live.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

A nation that forgets its past has no future

The price of greatness is responsibilty.

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

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

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.

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

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

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

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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

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

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."

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

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

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

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

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.

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

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

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