Quotes By Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

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

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Politics is 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.