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Best Quotes By Winston Churchill


If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL


A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL


Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.” 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL


A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL

If you are going to go through hell, keep going. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL


You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


Politics is 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.
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL



Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


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


Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. 
-- 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 


Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


Eating words has never given me indigestion. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



History is written by the victors. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


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


I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


I like a man who grins when he fights. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


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. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


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


Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



Never, never, never give up. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. 
-- 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. Never run away from anything. Never! 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. 
-- 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 


We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. 
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 



When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL 


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