Winston S. Churchill Quotes
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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.
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
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.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
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.
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
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.
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'.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
