Quotes By Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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

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

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

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.

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

I like a man who grins when he fights.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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