Winston Churchill Quotes (492 Quotes)

We shall neither fail nor falter we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is -- the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

I have waited fifty years to see the Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into 3 classes those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death.

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.

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

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

The Happy Warrior of Squandermania.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Winston Churchill, for his part, regarded Gandhi with not a little contempt, describing the 'Mahatma' as a dangerous charlatan 'It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice regal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of King-Emperor.'

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey hardship our garment constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

A joke is a very serious thing.

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

It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

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.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

The stone age may return on the gleaming wings of science.

Sometimes people will stumble over the truth. But then they get up and continue to run like nothing has happened

Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this The only guide to a man is his conscience the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations but with this shield, however the fate may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

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 for impotence.

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

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others.

What was gunpowder Trivial. What was electricity Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in wrath.

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

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.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays ... are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

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.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the 'worst' form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.