Winston Churchill Quotes

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

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.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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!

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

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

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

This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small,large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force;never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

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

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

If you're going through hell, keep going

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and 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.

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

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

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

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

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Terminological inexactitude

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!

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

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.

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France 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 halls. We shall never surrender.