Winston S. Churchill Quotes - Page 3

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

If you are going through hell, keep going.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may dev

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

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.

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

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

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

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

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

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.