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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The bowler hat momentarily replaced by a steel helmet Churchill is relaxed and smiling in a bomb shelter as the RAF and the Luftwaffe battled over Dover.

In the harsh summer of 1940 few nations were blessed as Britain was in difficult times. In new Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the country had a leader whose style, temperament and experience made him the ideal leader for times of war, the most suitable man to take charge of a country badly beaten, at a time when Luftwaffe's Reich Marshal Hermann Goring was preparing to attack Britain to force it to surrender.

Churchill loved the power and control and also a good fight. He was extremely energetic and competitive and always kept up with a  variety of hobbies such as painting, polo, hunting and writing. As a boy at Harrow, he stubbornly refused to learn Latin and mathematics. Then he went to the Sandhurst military academy, served as an officer enthusiast in India and occupied a seat in parliament at the age of 26. In 1911 when he was just 37 years old Churchill became the top leader of the Royal Navy.

Churchill was also a shrewd opportunist who during his political career, who did not care to switch parties .  Finally he was selfish and extravagant, lover of elegant clothes and bright hats, for whom the megalomania was the only way to protect his sanity.

In part as he liked to draw attention, as Prime Minister Churchill frequently and deliberately took personal risks.  But people admired him for it, and admired his disdain toward the danger. Once when a German bomb fell near his car and was about to overturn it he managed to joke, "That should be my kilos which kept the car straight."

In 1889 a student from Harrow, Winston Churchill then 15 years of age is portrayed with mandatory school uniform, jackets, cane and all.

An unflappable Lt. Churchill poses astride his favorite horse during his time of military service in India 1896, with the Hussars of the Queen.

Member of the government at the age of 35 years  Churchill (with white cap) shakes hands with his host, Kaiser Wilhelm during military maneuvers in Germany in 1909

Churchill stands next to Allied officers in France in 1915. He was a infantry battalion commander there

Churchill poses next to a biplane after completing a flight of 200 miles in 1914.  An impetuous and extremely lucky pilot, he once crashed but escaped unhurt.

With Clementine his wife, Churchill doffs his hat during an unsuccessful campaign for Parliament as an independent candidate in 1924

On holiday in France in 1927 as finance minister Churchill drinks some brandy  before a wild boar hunt

Churchill rides against the Prince of Wales during a polo match in 1924. While serving as a trooper in India he won a trophy with his team and remained an excellent polo player even in his fifties.

With his white hat and overall Churchill the artist paints a picture at the French Riviera in 1935.

At the beginning of World War II, as First Lord of Admiralty, Churchill talks with army officers of the British expeditionary force.

Recently appointed Prime Minister Churchill studies maps of war with Admiral Ramsay Bretram in September 1940, during an inspection tour of the defenses along the south coast of Great Britain.

Churchill with British soldiers in southern coastal area of Britain which was expected to face the brunt of the German attack

Officers and sailors of a battle cruiser anchored at a port in northern Britain give three cheers to their prime minister

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