A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Sir Winston Churchill
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Sir Winston Churchill
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which i will not put.
- Sir Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices i admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for i intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Sir Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Sir Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Sir Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Sir Winston Churchill
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. But the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
- Sir Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
- Sir Winston Churchill
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- Sir Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Sir Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
- Sir Winston Churchill
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat'.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Sir Winston Churchill
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations'.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
- Sir Winston Churchill So they [The Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Sir Winston Churchill
For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- Sir Winston Churchill
