1. The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
2. Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
- Winston Churchill
3. The English never draw a line without blurring it.
- Winston Churchill
4. The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
5. We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
6. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill
7. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
8. We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
9. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill
10. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
11. We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
12. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
13. We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill
14. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
15. The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
- Winston Churchill
16. Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
- Winston Churchill
17. Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
18. This is the lesson: never give in, 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.
- Winston Churchill
19. We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Winston Churchill
20. Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
- Winston Churchill
21. There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.
- Winston Churchill
22. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
- Winston Churchill
23. Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
- Winston Churchill
24. 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.
- Winston Churchill
25. War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
26. 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.
- Winston Churchill
27. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
28. 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.
- Winston Churchill
29. Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
30. I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
31. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
32. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
33. All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
- Winston Churchill
34. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Winston Churchill
35. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
- Winston Churchill
36. Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.
- Winston Churchill
37. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
- Winston Churchill
38. All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
39. It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
40. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
41. In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
- Winston Churchill
42. You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
43. No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
44. 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.
- Winston Churchill
45. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
46. There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
47. It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.
- Winston Churchill
48. 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.
- Winston Churchill
49. In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
50. No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
- Winston Churchill
51. I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill
52. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Winston Churchill
53. Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
54. Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
- Winston Churchill
55. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Winston Churchill
56. We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
57. If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
- Winston Churchill
58. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
59. I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
60. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
61. One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
- Winston Churchill
62. What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
- Winston Churchill
63. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Winston Churchill
64. Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
65. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
66. 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.
- Winston Churchill
67. 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.
- Winston Churchill
68. The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
- Winston Churchill
69. There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
70. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Winston Churchill
71. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
72. 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.
- Winston Churchill
73. There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill
74. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
75. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Winston Churchill
76. It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
77. “Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”
- Winston Churchill
78. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
79. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
80. Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
81. If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
82. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
83. Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Winston Churchill
84. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill
85. There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
- Winston Churchill
86. Politics is 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.
- Winston Churchill
87. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
88. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
89. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
90. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
91. I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
- Winston Churchill
92. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
- Winston Churchill
93. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
94. We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
- Winston Churchill
95. Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
- Winston Churchill
96. Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
97. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
98. Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
- Winston Churchill
99. It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
- Winston Churchill
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