Winston Churchill Quotes

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

"Mr. Churchill you're drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.

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.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

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.'

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

Never run away from anything. Never!

Never, never, never give up.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

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

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

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

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.