Winston Churchill quotes

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

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

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. ”

— Winston Churchill

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

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ”

— Winston Churchill

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

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

— Winston Churchill

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

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. ”

— Winston Churchill

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

“We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. ”

— Winston Churchill

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

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

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

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

— Winston Churchill

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

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

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

“I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. ”

— Winston Churchill

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

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. ”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

— Winston Churchill

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

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

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”

— Winston Churchill

 quotes - No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

— Winston Churchill

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

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

— Winston Churchill

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

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

— Winston Churchill

“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.”

— Winston Churchill