Quotes By Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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

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

I like a man who grins when he fights.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

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

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

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

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

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

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

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