"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations"
- Winston Churchill: My Early Life (1930) ch. 9.
"Never in the
face of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."
- Winston Churchill
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so
few."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (about the Royal Air Force)
(both quotations are correct, but said at different occasions)
"In Critical
and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and
simple action"
- Sir Winston S. Churchill
“it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a
desire to bear themselves well and to leave life’s stage with dignity conquers
all other sensations.”
- Sir Winston S. Churchill
"I have never accepted what many
people have kindly said, namely that I inspired the Nation. It was the nation
and the race dwelling around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck
to be called upon to give the roar"
- Sir Winston Churchill, Speech Nov. 1954.
"There is at
least one thing worse than fighting with allies – And that is to fight without
them"
- Sir Winston S. Churchill
"The
power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
- Winston Churchill
"Democracy is the
best form of the worst type of government"
- Winston Churchill
"A lie gets halfway
around the world before the truth has a chance to get
its pants on. "
- Winston Churchill
"Courage is
rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that
guarantees all others"
- Sir Winston S. Churchill
"A
prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not
to kill him."
- Sir Winston S. Churchill, 1952. (The Observer)
No matter how
enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is
sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.
- Winston Churchill
"The Americans
will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the
alternatives."
- Winston Churchill
"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of
valor, and be in readiness for the
conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the
outrage of our nation and our altar."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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. Never yield
to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-Winston Churchill
"We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on
beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never
surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a
large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas,
armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in
God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the
liberation and rescue of the Old."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the fall of France)
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory.
Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however long and
hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now
at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and
in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed.
Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to
powder."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose
dishonor and you will have war."
Churchill's remark after Chamberlain returned from signing the Munich pact
with Hitler
and
"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose
dishonor."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which
has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are
not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an
unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
- Winston Churchill
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight
in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing
strength in the air. 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
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general,
the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
- Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
It's no use saying, ''We are doing our best.'' You have got to succeed in
doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife
to marry me.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The
young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
- Winston Churchill
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
- Winston Churchill
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who
get drunk.
- Winston Churchill
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig
will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
- Winston Churchill
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
- Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without
innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others
look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse,
pulling a sturdy wagon.
- Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what
to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant
ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
- Winston Churchill
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
- Winston Churchill
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
- Winston Churchill
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great
ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
- Winston Churchill
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
- Winston Churchill
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
- Winston Churchill
"There
is nothing so pleasing as to be shot at by one’s enemy without
result."
- Winston Churchill
"Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
- Churchill, in a broadcast addressed to Roosevelt in 1941
"It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies.
You had to create them, organize them and inspire them."
- Churchill to General George Marshall 1945
"We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us,
and, may I say across the
havoc of war, a great general."
- Churchill about Rommel
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory,
because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
-Winston Churchill
In War: Resolution In Defeat: Defiance In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will
-Winston Churchill quotes
If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.
-Winston Churchill quotes
Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.
-Winston Churchill quotes
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