Quotes By Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

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

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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.

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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

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

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

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

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

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

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.

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

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!

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

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

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

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Great and good are seldom the same man.