Winston Churchill Quotes

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

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

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Success always demands a greater effort.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

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

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

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

You create your own universe as you go along.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.