Quotes By Winston Churchill

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.

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

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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.

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

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.

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.

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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