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Churchill: Sir Winston Churchill Quotes
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
- We are masters of unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- 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!
- The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
- Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
- It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
- Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- I am just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- I am an optimist. It does not seem to much use being anything else.
- We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.
- History is written by the victors.
- We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
- You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- If you are going through hell, keep going.
- “No comment” is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
- We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to life himself up by the handle.
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
- Never, never, never, never, give up.
- In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it to be a wholesome diet.
- We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- The problems of victory are much more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are not less difficult.
- I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- 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.
- It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
- A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality.
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
- If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth, but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing happened.
- Al of the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy hope.
- A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to gets its pants on.
- The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.
- Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.” Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”
- To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.” Churchill: “If I were your husband, I would take it.”
- You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.
- The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
- The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.