Churchill

.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - 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.
-- Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-- hoping it will eat him last.
-- Winston Churchill

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.
-- Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
-- 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

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain hazardous, and conflicting information.
-- Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
-- Winston Churchill

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
-- Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
-- Winston Churchill

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be 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 small 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.
-- Winston Churchill

Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
-- Winston Churchill

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
-- Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
-- Winston Churchill

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

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
-- Winston Churchill

Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.
-- Winston Churchill

Don't talk to me about Naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
-- Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Winston Churchill

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
-- Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
-- Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-- Winston Churchill

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
-- Winston Churchill

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.
-- Winston Churchill

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, 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

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the 'worst' form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
-- Winston Churchill

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
-- Winston Churchill

An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
-- Winston Churchill

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
-- Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else.
-- Winston Churchill

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
-- Winston Churchill

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
-- Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
-- Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
-- Winston Churchill

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
-- Winston Churchill

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
-- Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
- Sir Winston Churchill
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
-- Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
-- Winston Churchill

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
-- Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-- Winston Churchill

( a conversation between Winston Churchill and Lady Astor )
Lady Astor- Why Sir Churchill you are drunk!
Churchill- And you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning!
-- Winston Churchill

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
-- Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
-- Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
-- Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
-- Winston Churchill

Of course, we are all worms-- but I like to think, at least, that I am a glowworm.
-- Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
-- Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Winston Churchill

I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught.
-- Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
-- Winston Churchill

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
-- Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
-- Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
-- Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-- Winston Churchill

The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
-- Winston Churchill

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

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a sheperd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
-- Winston Churchill