Quotes By Winston Churchill

A politician needs 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 pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

History is written by the victors.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

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

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.