Winston Churchill

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

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

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

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

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

We shape our buildings Thereafter they shape us.

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

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

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

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

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

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

Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few.

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

We The British have not journeyed across the centuries across the oceans across the mountains across the prairies because we are made of sugar candy.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

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

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Never never never give up.

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

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

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

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Land monopoly is not the only monopoly which exists, 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.

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

You have enemies Good. That means youve stood up for something sometime in your life.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

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

Never give in.. never never never never in nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force.. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish theyd make up their minds.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Smoking cigars is like falling in love; first you are attracted to its shape; you stay with it for its flavour; and you must always remember never, never let the flame go out.

Never, never, never give up.

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

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough ... We have to do what is required.

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

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

If you are going through hell keep going.

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

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

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.

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

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

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Some peoples idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back that is an outrage.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

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

In time of war when truth is so precious it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable we had to add whisky. By diligent effort I learned to like it.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

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

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

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

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

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

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

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

There is nothing noble being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former self.